By Andrew L. Jaffee

Mendacity! Too many people have lost a basic understanding of right versus wrong. Tonight, a morally bankrupt blogger wrote this regarding the Virginia Tech gunman (and the Columbine killers):

…I identified with them. I didn’t want to, but I did. I didn’t want to identify with Cho Seung-Hui either. But I did. Because though I didn’t know him, I knew something about him. …

It’s a story that reminds me how easily I could have been one of them. …

These horrific sentiments because Cho was “laughed at as a schoolboy.” How completely pathetic. No one is willing to deal with a challenge or some tough times. It all has to be made easy for people… And if society doesn’t make it easy, well, watch out, because the poor, persecuted babies will go postal… They’ll get even because they’re entitled to it.

Do we want to permit bullying? No, of course not, but life will always be full of challenges. Excusing mass murderers for having a rough time in middle school, like most all of us did, is just plain amoral and pitiful.

Full Virginia Tech/Cho Seung-Hui Coverage:

• Thinking too much about Ismail Ax
• Virginia Tech and Adolescence
• Lessons from Virginia Tech: We Had Better Learn Them
• Ideas for Virginia Tech killer Cho Seung-Hui
• The true measure of a man
• When PR supersedes safety
• Hollywood hasn’t raised concerns?

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Related: Society, Virginia Tech Shooting

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